Overview
- Roku Voice is gaining AI to handle natural-language questions about movies, shows and actors with on-screen answers and follow-up queries, powered by a mix of in-house and commercial LLMs.
- Search is expanding into the Live TV Zone and will reach the Live TV Channel Guide, and trailers get a Ways to Watch button while results highlight up to two apps based on active subscriptions.
- Roku Sports adds Live Scores on matchup tiles with an option to hide them, and new Reminders send mobile notifications when selected games are about to begin.
- The Roku mobile app is adding quick shortcuts for closed captions, Find My Remote, a sleep timer and daily trivia, plus a rate/mark-watched button and a new navigation bar for categories like Movies, TV Shows and Sports.
- Bluetooth Headphone Mode is coming to the Roku Streaming Stick and Streaming Stick Plus for private listening, a $198 Vankyo projector with Roku software is on sale at Walmart, updates arrive in the coming months, and privacy specifics around AI data handling remain unspecified.